Assam (Garo Hills)

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Video of life in Assam villages featuring landscapes, the Brahmaputra river, wild elephants, traditional houses, cotton fields, and scenes from the marketplace.

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1 film (12 min., 21 sec.) : sd. col. ; 16mm

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Ferger, H. R. October 31, 1944.

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This video is part of the collection entitled: Robbins Burling Collection and was provided by the UNT College of Information to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 56 times. More information about this video can be viewed below.

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Video of life in Assam villages featuring landscapes, the Brahmaputra river, wild elephants, traditional houses, cotton fields, and scenes from the marketplace.

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1 film (12 min., 21 sec.) : sd. col. ; 16mm

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Robbins Burling Collection

This is a collection of digitized materials created and collected by Dr. Robbins Burling (1926-2021). Over the course of his career as an anthropologist and linguist, Dr. Burling was among the most beloved and influential researchers working in Northeast India, having traveled to India regularly from the 1950s until well after his retirement from the University of Michigan in 1995.

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Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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  • October 31, 1944

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  • Oct. 12, 2022, 8:29 a.m.

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  • Nov. 18, 2023, 1:28 a.m.

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Ferger, H. R. Assam (Garo Hills), video, October 31, 1944; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2006416/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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